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Rule-Based Horror Novels, Probably None on Fanqie Right Now 规则怪谈类小说,番茄目前应该没有

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  1. 51 Zoo Horror Stories: I’m the Rulebreaker! 动物园怪谈:我,规则破坏者! Mystery137k WordsOngoing [Jiang Kai: My rules are the rules!] [This zoo is not that zoo + the more you think about it, the scarier it gets + absolutely no ginkgo + firepower galore!] When Jiang Kai opened his eyes, he found himself inside the mist-shrouded world of his first game instance: “Zoo Rules.” This place was full of all kinds of rules and dangers! [Remember! Before entering the zoo, everyone except minors must buy a ticket at the blue ticket booth on the right!] [Remember! After entering the zoo, read the visit 4Reads7.4Score—Shelves
  2. 52 Worldwide Creation: I Build a World of Weird Tales 全民创世:我打造怪谈世界 Urban1.1M WordsOngoing Shen Hui transmigrated to a planet where people could awaken the world's origin, create their own worlds, and become creators. Some built cultivation civilizations, while others built technological ones… But Shen Hui awakened a world of death, filled with negative energy. Nothing living could be created there, so it was considered a useless wasteland of a world. However, as someone familiar with all kinds of ghosts and urban legends, Shen Hui set out to create a world of eerie tales that needed 137Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  3. 53 Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间 Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world! 14.9kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
  4. 54 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏! Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 161kReads9.5Score19kShelves
  5. 55 Horror Gallery: I Paint with Urban Legends 恐怖画廊:我以怪谈作画 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Ghosts + Horror + Strange Tales + Thrills + Humor + Comedy + Mystery + The Supernatural + Urban Setting + No Female Lead (One Female Lead)] College student Xu Hancheng inherits the art gallery his missing grandfather left behind. But there’s something strange about the paintings in the gallery. A bloodthirsty, crazed beauty; a portrait of a girl with stitches around her neck; a nurse sculpture that makes your knees tremble... Every painting is an urban legend hiding countless secrets. To find h 524Reads8.2Score109Shelves
  6. 56 Horror Game: My Second Personality Is an Evil God 惊悚游戏,我的第二人格是邪神 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted [No Female Lead] [Madman] [Dark Humor] [Mind Games] [Thriller] A Thriller game descends, and Chen Xie, a patient at a psychiatric hospital, is dragged into it. With an evil god living inside him, he possesses both absolute rationality and absolute madness. Evil God: I’m the absolutely rational one. You’re the absolutely insane one! Mutant Doctor: This guy chopped me to death, then went off to make mutants himself! Ghost Teacher: He doesn’t just break the school rules, he straight-up blows the pr 5kReads9.3Score659Shelves
  7. 57 Thriller Game: Bro, You’re Scarier Than the Ghosts! 惊悚游戏:大哥你比鬼还凶! Mystery333k WordsCompleted A year ago, a supernatural force descended upon Blue Star and swept across the globe in an instant through live death broadcasts! Lin Zhi, born under the star of misfortune and destined to be alone, enters the game. While others are tormented by D-rank flesh demons, he awakens his Calamity-Born Physique. While others flee for their lives, he makes the long-haired female ghost dance herself to sleep. In his battle with the Ghost Mother, he burns the entire instance to ashes, accidentally discover 433Reads9.1Score100Shelves
  8. 58 The Haunted Playground 诡蜮乐园 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Not a power fantasy + light supernatural elements + infinite worlds + comedy] A world beyond reality, the secrets of higher dimensions laid bare, the sails of miracles unfurled. A mysterious letter opens the way to a strange new world. Heartbeats, blood, fear... They spread out from the Paradise World, sending ripples through the peaceful main world. Welcome to the Strange Realm Paradise! [This is a long story... Be patient and read on, everyone. Let's wait and see.] 7.6kReads8.8Score671Shelves
  9. 59 Barbecue Tales 烧烤怪谈 130k WordsCompleted Cai Bigui, a down-on-his-luck third-rate novelist, happens to meet Chu Ye, the mysterious owner of a barbecue shop, and accepts a bizarre commission: every Wednesday night, he must go to the shop, listen to a customer tell an outlandish story from their “own experience,” and write it down. These people seem ordinary, but only in the barbecue shop after dark do they let out the terrifying secrets they've hidden deep inside... Beneath layer upon layer of lies concealing deadly danger, the truth is —Reads8.5Score—Shelves
  10. 60 Master Ma Jiu Hunts Demons 马九爷捉妖 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Tianjin, where the Jiuriver meets the sea, has been home to strange tales since ancient times. If you don’t believe me, then listen as I tell you a ghost story from Tianjin: how Ninth Master Ma hunted demons. Speaking of Ninth Master Ma, he was truly a remarkable man. And before long, strange things began to happen... 748Reads9.1Score101Shelves
  11. 61 Rule Horror: One Wrong Step in Correcting History Means Instant Death 规则怪谈:修正历史错一步就抹杀 Mystery323k WordsOngoing Office drone Zheng Jie hadn’t even finished slurping his instant noodles when he was yanked straight into the Titanic! [Time-Space Correction Mission activated: Save 3 deviants. One wrong move and you’re erased!] A faceless female attendant in a white dress, a strange knocking sound at the door, a killer crewman with no features… This cursed ship is full of rule-based traps, and the Titanic still has to sink on schedule. In 30 minutes, time and space will collapse and everyone will be wiped out! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  12. 62 The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 Urban3.7M WordsCompleted I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 534.8kReads9.7Score72.6kShelves
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  13. 63 I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神 Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score184.7kShelves
  14. 64 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 Urban6.1M WordsCompleted After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 236.5kReads9.6Score28.7kShelves
  15. 65 Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score228kShelves
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  16. 66 Rule Horror: It Starts When I Resign to the Beautiful Headmistress 规则怪谈:从向美女园长辞职开始 Mystery175k WordsCompleted (What reader could possibly turn down an author who likes to kowtow to their readers?) [The most unique rules-based horror world on Tomato! + the Gold Club world (antimemetics division) ☆ + no female lead (important!) + livestreaming elements added to satisfy the market + fast pace + single male protagonist] The gods disagreed over how to define humanity, eventually giving rise to the Rules World. Countless parallel universes were thus linked together in a search for a way to break its rules. Am 43Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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  17. 67 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡野诡事 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted There is a saying among the common folk: those who keep an "immortal patron" may earn fortunes and receive countless favors from them, but when death comes, the patron takes it all back. The village elders say that Bu Gui was not born to his parents, but was sent to them by Seventh Granny with the help of an "immortal patron." Seventh Granny is a renowned spirit medium from far and wide, and now she is close to death. A series of strange events befalls Bu Gui. To stay alive, he has no choice but 4.4kReads8.9Score333Shelves
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  18. 68 Rule Horror: It Begins at the Haunted Zoo 规则怪谈:从动物园怪谈开始 Mystery573k WordsCompleted [Rule-Based Horror + Deduction + Livestreaming + National Fortune System + No Heroine] The supernatural has returned, and rule-based horror has descended. As a chosen player, Jiang Yi represents the Dragon Nation in the horror scenarios. Successfully clearing an instance earns national fortune points. After four consecutive failures, the Dragon Nation can’t afford another one. If he wins, the Dragon Nation wins! If he loses, the Dragon Nation falls! As it happens, the very first scenario Jiang Y 22.7kReads9.0Score5.1kShelves
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  19. 69 I'm a Demon Emperor, and You Want Me to Challenge the Rules of the Horror Tales? 我一魔帝,你让我挑战规则怪谈? Mystery488k WordsCompleted [Rule-based horror + Demon Emperor + Invincible + No Female Lead + National Destiny + Supernatural] Demon Emperor Su Bai returns to his homeland, intending to enjoy a quiet life. Just then, a rule-based horror game descends upon the real world, and Su Bai is chosen to represent the Dragon Kingdom in its challenge. Treating it as a bit of fun, Demon Emperor Su Bai enters the game and begins his relaxing vacation. Breaking the correct rules will get you corrupted? This Emperor wants to try it. The 599Reads9.3Score188Shelves
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  20. 70 Rule Horror: I Can Rewind and Survive 规则怪谈:我能回档不死 Mystery342k WordsCompleted [The uncanny] [Live streaming] [Rebellious] [Shameless] [Trickster] Lin Yuan was trapped in a one-day time loop for a hundred thousand days. Bored out of his mind, he gets pulled into the world of urban legends. While everyone else is treading on eggshells just to survive, Lin Yuan starts a new life causing trouble for the uncanny creatures in the world of urban legends. Lin Yuan: Heh heh heh, don't run! Let me take a look and see if you're male or female. Viewers: What the hell, you can't do th 5.9kReads8.5Score464Shelves
  21. 71 Campus Rule Horror: Please Survive 校园规则怪谈:请活下去 Mystery133k WordsCompleted [Female lead with no CP + no System + no livestream + no talent + unrelated to national fate] Wei Ran arrived at A City No. 1 High School and received a student handbook filled with rules. She also found a diary left by a senior under the pillow in her dorm room. The title page read: Please do everything you can to survive. (This story is entirely fictional.) (There is a worldbuilding framework, woven into the later plot.) 886Reads8.7Score118Shelves
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  22. 72 Infinite Ghost Stories: I Confessed to the Boss from the Start, and Now I'm Stuck with Them 无限怪谈:开局表白boss,被缠上了 Mystery709k WordsCompleted [Urban legend world + endless instances + Harem System + flirt and run + one-to-many (male leads are split into fragments)] After someone on the street slipped her a little card, Ai Li transmigrated. She ended up in a horror world full of eerie instances and monsters. Barely arrived, she ran into a terrifying clown with greasepaint on his face, forcing her to make a choice. Luckily, the System arrived just in time. But why did this System feel so suspiciously unprofessional? [Ding! Harem System 7.1kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
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  23. 73 Thriller Game: Going on a Blind Date With a Monster from the Start 惊悚游戏:开局和诡异相亲 Mystery355k WordsCompleted [Occasional livestreaming + Hilarious chaos + Infinite-flow game + Romance + One-on-one, devoted couple + Unhinged, wildly unpredictable heroine × Loyal, extremely possessive, eerie hero + No saintly heroine, no idiotic decisions + The hero is Pyramid Head from Silent Hill] [If you’ve read this book, please don’t make inappropriate comments under other people’s Pyramid Head fan works! It’s rude!] A horror game descended upon the world. Players chosen at random were sent into instances, where the 2.7kReads9.2Score353Shelves
  24. 74 Rule Horror: I Write the Rules 规则怪谈:我来书写规则 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Doomsday Arrives + Livestream + National Fate + Supernatural Rules + Parallel World] The supernatural descended upon Blue Star, and rules became humanity’s final point of contention with the unspeakable. The unspeakable would randomly select “chosen ones” from every country and send them into a supernatural world. If they successfully solved its mystery, that round’s haunting would disappear from their country. If they failed the challenge within the allotted time, the haunting would descend up 1.4kReads8.9Score170Shelves
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  25. 75 Rule Horror: Saving the World Starts with Me 规则怪谈:从我开始,拯救世界 Mystery241k WordsCompleted [Parallel World + Chosen Ones (Investigators) Bound to Their Countries + No National Destiny + No Livestreams + No CP + The Country Is Useful + Foreign Supporting Characters Aren't Demonized or Made Stupid + The Protagonist Has Family and Friends + The Protagonist Has Her Own Values and Isn't Dark + The Protagonist Is Clever, but Not the Cleverest + Success Doesn't Have to Be Mine, but I Will Have Played My Part] Six months ago, a mirror of water suddenly appeared in the sky, showing a group of 83Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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  26. 76 Rule Horror: Starting at the School of Death! 规则怪谈,从死亡高校开始! Mystery241k WordsCompleted [Thriller] [Horror] [Original Urban Legends] [No Female Lead] The supernatural is resurging, and rule-based horror stories are invading the Blue Star. Each country will randomly select a challenger to enter a world of rule-based horror! If the challenger clears the challenge, their country will become immune to one type of horror’s invasion! The first horror level Lin Mo enters is Death High School! [Welcome to the world of horror! You are a student at Death High School.] [Death High School Rule 352Reads8.0Score—Shelves
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  27. 77 Rule Horror: I Can Use Every Rule to My Advantage 规则怪谈:我能利用一切规则 Mystery114k WordsOngoing [No Female Lead] + [No System] + [No Mindless Plot] + [Eerie] + [Mystery] = [?] An eerie world descends, and rules-based horror stories emerge. Bai Xiao is suddenly chosen as the Chosen One. Only by surviving the horror stories can he stop them from descending upon the nation. If he loses, Huaguo loses! If he dies, Huaguo falls! But are the rules really true? Cinema Rules: [1. This cinema has security measures in place. Viewers are absolutely safe inside the screening rooms, so feel free to choo —Reads—Score—Shelves
  28. 78 Rule Horror: I Can See Through Lies 规则怪谈:我能看穿谎言 Mystery161k WordsOngoing The supernatural descended upon the world, and evil spirits invaded the living realm. Every country had to choose someone to enter a ghost story created by the supernatural. If they failed, the ghost story would invade their country. If they succeeded, the invasion would be averted. China’s first challenger was unlucky enough to fail, and the ghost story invaded the city, arriving at Yangcheng No. 1 High School. Lu Chen, the youngest major figure in the field of detective fiction, happened to be 6Reads5.7Score—Shelves
  29. 79 Chizuru's Everyday Life in a Bizarre Game 千鹤的诡异游戏日常 Mystery318k WordsCompleted (This book includes rule-based horror, the apocalypse, invisibility, stopped time, altered common sense, hypnosis, ghost control, disturbing characters, and other storylines.) Hidden beneath the surface of the world is a realm belonging solely to the paranormal. No one knows how it came to be. Everything humanity has is nourishment for these beings. Now a mysterious game is inviting people to join. The paranormal begins to emerge, and peaceful everyday life is gradually shattered. Beneath the se 402Reads—Score104Shelves
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  30. 80 I Become Clara and Run Wild in Rule-Bound Horror Tales! 变成克拉拉的我在规则怪谈横行! Mystery476k WordsCompleted Rules-based horror + transformation + national destiny + System + mystery (Problems in the story have been fixed.) All the supernatural tales in this novel are original, so enjoy without worry!!! Rules-based horrors descend upon Blue Star, and one person in each country is randomly chosen as a Chosen One to represent their nation. Every time a Chosen One clears a horror scenario, their country receives a random reward. If they fail, it receives a random punishment! Yanyu wakes up one day to disc 842Reads9.3Score134Shelves
  31. 81 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Helped Monsters Make Choices 惊悚游戏:开局帮鬼怪做选择 Mystery2.5M WordsOngoing [Horror game dungeons + career-based progression + NPCs caught in a rat race + livestreaming + everyday-life style] Jiang Ye’s daily routine consists of working, studying, working... Then one day, he’s pulled into a horror game during class and awakens an all-career talent. He discovers that all his career skills are a little strange. From the start, he unlocks the career “Small-Town Exam Machine,” with an added skill that lets him make choices for ghosts and monsters. [A difficult choice has ap 54.3kReads9.4Score5.5kShelves
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  32. 82 Rule Horror: My Talent Can Evolve Without Limit 规则怪谈:我的天赋可以无限进化 Mystery300k WordsCompleted [National Fortune + Livestream + No Female Lead + Worst Possible Start] What?! I got an F-rank talent from the start. The odds are one in a trillion! Bai Mo can’t help looking up at the sky and sighing. Heaven wants me dead! Anyone summoned by “It” will enter the world of horrors. Their deaths affect their country’s fortune, and the horrors will descend upon its cities. The first world of horror Bai Mo has to face is Hope Elementary School, where the death rate is 98%! But! There’s always a way 229Reads—Score—Shelves
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  33. 83 Rule Horror: There’s Nothing Wrong with Being a Little Self-Absorbed, Right? 规则怪谈:自恋一点没有问题吧? Mystery83k WordsOngoing ‖Some power-fantasy elements + a little brain-teasing + a little protagonist plot armor + a few national-fortune elements + lots of instances and bewildering plays‖ Sorry, I got the tags wrong. There is one female lead, not no female lead. No CP No CP No CP! What fun things might happen when an extremely narcissistic person enters a world of the paranormal? Come and read Rules of the Paranormal: There’s Nothing Wrong with Being a Little Narcissistic! —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  34. 84 Thriller Game: I Kissed the Ghost Princess from the Start 惊悚游戏:开局强吻鬼公主 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Horror game + ridiculous comedy + mystery + supernatural, not scary.] Even capitalists would weep, and financial tycoons would look at this and cry out that it's a crime. In the horror world, Ye Chen does only two things: make money and flirt with female ghosts. A female ghost tries to pull a honey trap? He takes all her ghost coins. He operates on a male ghost, who refuses to pay extra halfway through? Congratulations, sir. Your wife has one fewer husband from now on, but one more sister. He e 375Reads9.1Score105Shelves
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  35. 85 Me, the Horror Game Producer! 我,惊悚游戏策划! Mystery296k WordsOngoing “What? You want me to be a game designer?” Wang Hao has only just transmigrated when he discovers that the Horror Dimension has invited him to design horror games! And so, a game designer whom everyone on Blue Star wants to chop up and eat is born! “Put Qingshan Hospital in the game!” “How can a horror game be complete without urban legends? Add some, add some!” “Quick, what about the zoo? Put in all the rule-based horror stories too!” As Wang Hao keeps designing new horror games, he gradually l 3Reads7.7Score—Shelves
  36. 86 I'm a Fugitive Mental Patient, Chosen by a Rules Horror Game 我,在逃精神病,被规则怪谈选中 Mystery542k WordsCompleted [No female lead + supernatural horror + mental illness + comedy + national destiny] My name is Su Ming, and I'm a transmigrator. I currently work at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital, where I'm in charge of the important project of “being studied.” They keep saying I'm sick, but I know I'm fine. It's the world that's sick. After I escaped from the psychiatric hospital, I was chosen by Rule Horror to become Longguo's chosen participant, representing Longguo in the upcoming horror games. [Ding! The Ho 55kReads9.6Score7.5kShelves
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  37. 87 Rules Horror: I’m a Madman, You Say I’m Cheating? 规则怪谈:我一疯子你说我开挂? Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Rule-Based Horror + Deduction + Lunatic + Male-Male Romance + Wild Ride] A friendly warning: to repeat, the love between two men is just seasoning. The main focus is still clearing the rule-based horror scenarios! The rule-based horror game begins, and uncanny livestreams descend! Each country randomly picks one player to enter the game, and an uncanny livestream begins! If a player fails, the rule-based horror descends upon their country! What kind of shock will Meng Fei, a genuine lunatic, b 18.6kReads9.5Score3.3kShelves
  38. 88 I’m a Female Ghost, and You Want Me to Take on Rule Horror? 我一女鬼,你让我挑战规则怪谈? Mystery556k WordsCompleted (Gender transformation, refuses to marry, mystery and deduction, eerie, nearly invincible) Qin Yun was contaminated by an evil entity inside an ancient mirror and turned into a female ghost. This female ghost was no ordinary vengeful spirit. She was an extremely eerie and powerful life form of unknown origin. Just then, the Rule Horror game descended, and Qin Yun was chosen as the Dragon Kingdom's representative, tasked with challenging its horrors. If a country failed its challenge, the horror 6kReads8.8Score932Shelves
  39. 89 Thriller Game: I Livestream as a Model Student for the Whole World 惊悚游戏:全球直播我做三好学生 Mystery465k WordsCompleted [Horror Game + Supernatural + System + Invincible + Livestream] Horror games descended upon the world. The paranormal returned, and terrifying livestreams began. Those chosen were forced to endure one hellish ordeal after another. Here, only those who met the requirements could clear a game and return to the real world. From then on, humanity lived in constant fear and misery. Then one day, the tone of the horror-game forum, where people discussed strategies for clearing games, suddenly changed. 121Reads8.9Score—Shelves
  40. 90 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚:因为担心不优雅而过度变态 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 78.6kReads9.5Score9kShelves
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  41. 91 Rule Horror: I Clear the Eerie Instances by Playing Dead 规则怪谈:我靠装死通关诡异 Mystery381k WordsOngoing [Not a power fantasy + No heroine + Shocking twists + Major foreshadowing + Cthulhu Mythos + A touch of the Backrooms + Mind-bending mystery + National fate + Livestreaming + Original mini-dungeons] [My brainpower is limited, so there won’t be much foreshadowing. I promise this won’t be dragged out or end badly.] Three years after the world was plunged into the uncanny, challengers’ talents were ranked from lowest to highest: C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS. So Bai Lan was stunned when the talent she dr 28Reads—Score—Shelves
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  42. 92 Rules of the Paranormal: The Horrors? They're All Family 规则怪谈,诡异?都是一家人 Mystery947k WordsCompleted [Rule-based horror + national destiny + no romance + livestream + original scenarios + mild scares + warm and healing] Three years ago, rule-based horror arrived, launching a game that put the fate of nations on the line. Every month, chosen players are randomly selected from various countries to enter the horror world and clear its challenges. Clear a challenge, and you earn generous rewards. Fail, and the chosen player dies, while the horror descends upon their country. The Xia Kingdom has alr 16.1kReads9.5Score1.9kShelves
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  43. 93 I Asked You to Write an Essay, Not a Rule Horror Story! 让你写作文,你写规则怪谈? Mystery622k WordsCompleted [Behind the Scenes]+ [Creating Rules Horror]+ [No System]+ [No Saintly Hero] Lin Chen wrote nothing more than a school essay, yet it plunged all of Longguo into panic. Because the rules horror he wrote had become real! The night before, wanting revenge on the gangsters who bullied him, Lin Chen had used one of their birthday parties as the template for a rules horror scenario. The next day, he was astonished to discover that several classmates who had attended the gangsters' birthday party the p 2.8kReads8.2Score364Shelves
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  44. 94 Rule Horror: I Have No Shame, and Even the Horrors Fear Me 规则怪谈:我不要脸怪谈闻风丧胆 Mystery358k WordsCompleted [Rule-Based Horror, Instances, No Female Lead, No Romance, Invincible Protagonist, System, Power Fantasy, Witty and Humorous, Goofy and Absurd, Plot-Driven…] Title: I Have No Shame, and I'm Thriving in the Horror Game. Synopsis: Spiritual qi revival. Terror descends. The Dragon Kingdom has lost eight rounds of the horror game. The ninth is its last hope. But this time, the game chose someone nobody knew: Gu Yi. [Gu Yi? Who came up with that name? Did they pick him just to make us laugh?] [Seriou 455Reads6.8Score102Shelves
  45. 95 Beast Taming: In the Urban Legend Dungeon, I'm the Lazy King from the Start 御兽:怪谈副本,开局我是懒大王 Anime Fanfiction1.8M WordsCompleted [Rules-based horror + beast taming + comedy + System + no romance] The protagonist isn't a bleeding heart! (This isn't traditional beast taming or a national-fate rules horror story, so feel free to dive in.) After waking from a night's sleep, Lin Yu found himself transmigrated into a parallel world where people mainly made contracts with the supernatural. He was also a soon-to-be senior in high school, training to become a supernatural beast tamer?! "All I did was stay up late watching Blue Fox 10.8kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
  46. 96 Rule Horror: I Pulled the Old Man's Oxygen Tube from the Start 规则怪谈:开局拔了老头氧气管 Mystery522k WordsCompleted No female lead + national fate + eerie mysteries + comedy + unconventional ideas Lin Yuan transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world, and is chosen to take part in a rules-based horror game. From the start, he activates an SSS-rank talent. [SSS-Rank Talent: Ghostbane] [Talent Effect 1: Rules are completely useless against you. When you break the rules of a horror scenario, the corruption of its world has no effect on you.] [Talent Effect 2: When a creature in a horror scenario feels negative e 52.3kReads9.6Score7.2kShelves
  47. 97 I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神,于是众神陨落 Urban415k WordsCompleted [The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha 32.9kReads9.6Score4.6kShelves
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  48. 98 I Use a Coin to Rule the World 我用一枚硬币玩转规则世界 Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted [Rules-based horror + not a power fantasy + no System + no national survival game + no livestreaming + no tired tropes + horror + deduction and puzzle-solving + suspense + fictional setting + requires some brainpower] (A fairly unusual first-person narrative, but easy to read and more immersive.) The university I’d eagerly looked forward to turned out to be a bizarre academy. It was full of all kinds of strange rules: Dormitory rules, campus rules, competition and event rules, mission rules… You 3.4kReads8.8Score335Shelves
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  49. 99 Rule Horror: Infinite Hauntings 规则怪谈之无限诡异 Mystery275k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + Mystery + Livestream + System + Horror] The bizarre descended, and Xia An, one of the vast army of transmigrators, could only say he was screwed. While everyone else transmigrated into a life of luxury, he was constantly hovering on the brink of death. He swore that if he ever got the chance, he’d tear apart that damn rule-horror space and the damn System that brought him here. Those two were definitely in cahoots, screwing over a newbie transmigrator like him. (I wrote this no 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  50. 100 The Ghostly Deliveryman 鬼怪外卖员 Mystery525k WordsCompleted “Hello, this is Jiang Sheng, a delivery rider for the Midnight Takeout app. Here’s your order. Please check it!” Wearing a black delivery uniform, Jiang Sheng smiled at the rotting corpse before him. He even remembered to take the corpse’s hand as he said, “Hey, don’t forget to leave me a five-star review!” This is the story of an ordinary man delivering takeout to vengeful ghosts... 188Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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